A fe mía

This is an enlightening story of a true, behind-the-curtains life. We intended to keep one secret until the end, as you will see below, but it was too late. Sara died. Almost every single word of this book was from Sara's own handwritten script hidden in the last place you would imagine, knowing Sara Jane was afraid of heights.

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...

En el siglo XV, la antigua Valaquia, conocida hoy como Transilvania, fue escenario de cruentas luchas entre turcos, cristianos y los propios habitantes de esta zona geográfica –entre otros, eslavos, macedonios, serbios y croatas-. Ésta es la historia de Vlad III Dracul, llamado por sus contemporáneos “el Empalador”, quien, en medio de estos combates sin cuartel, luchó con tales medios por la independencia de sus país que hasta hoy se recuerda su crueldad sin límites. De él se cuenta, entre otros muchos detalles pavorosos, que solía almorzar rodeado de sus prisioneros agonizantes ...